fandomtownies | Furnado Animal Shelter; Monday [01/31].

Even though it was very clear that a lot of work had gone into it and there was an almost endless potential for cuteness inherant in it, Sakaki really wasn't sure she could feel confident about Sidon's new cat habitat that seemed to sprawl over the entire shelter and, more importantly, overhead to new heights. The idea of the cats getting the drop on her from above was a new level of paranoia to include into her already trecherous work days that she did not know how to feel about.

Thankfully, none of them seemed particularly out for blood today, which meant that she could focus on her training assignments from the vet and her photography assignment for class in relative peace. She didn't have an issue with most of the different kinds of shots, but when she considered how to get a good bird's-eye-view shot and wound up climbing on the counter for more height, she instantly regretted it and those pictures probably weren't going to turn out too well with how her hands were shaking.

She then wondered, once she'd climbed back down and recovered thanks to being back on solid, low ground again, if it would be cheating if she just asked Sidon to take a few birds-eye pictures for her...

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And look who else was here for some photo related visiting.

"Hey Sakaki" Kurt greeted with a smile as he entered, his own camera hanging around his neck.

When Kurt came in, Sakaki was still recovering from a near-death experience. Not by cat attack, thankfully, but by cute attack instead, as she'd been warily eying a cat on one of the higher ledges, only to have it stop, stretch out impossibly long, give the biggest kitty yawn imaginable, and then curled up to sleep.

It was so much, it left her veritablely trembling.

So she blinked out of the cute haze when she heard him come in and it took a few moments to process anything beyond it.

"Oh," she said, "Kurt. G-good morning." She remembered what they'd talked about and smiled faintly. "Ready for some good animal pictures?"

"Aye! Definitely!" he said with a big grin. "Moved all the photos to my laptop this morning so I have a clean memory disc to work with too!"

Kurt paused for a moment as he looked around and his eyes went a little big. There were so many animals, and that was mostly just the cats and dogs he could see right off hand. And Sakaki had been right, they were very cute indeed.

And she had to learn so much about taking care of all of them! Learning to be a vet was daunting even without the added pressure of having a terrifying shark boss!

"Is there anywhere you wanted to start?" asked Sakaki, going to grab her camera as well. "I've mostly been getting the cats so far."

Because 'cat photographer' was a much easier, albeit far more dangerous, potential career choice!

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"I was thinking of starting with something a little more exotic" Kurt confessed. "You have hedgehogs you said?"he asked with a grin because Kurt ~~and his mun~~
both absolutely adored the prickly critters.

"We do have hedgehogs," Sakaki confirmed, her smile growing a little with her nod, and her relief, that Kurt had picked them. Because they were pretty adorable, with the added bonus of not wanting to attack her when she got too near.

"That is a good choice," she added, then started to walk over toward where they were kept in their interconnected habitat of cages. "We have about half a dozen of them right now." She leaned forward to peer through the main cage, and smiled to see one already ambling up out of where he was nestled in the soft bedding to curiously see what was going on. "Look! There's one now! That looks like Biscuit."

It would have been the hedgehogs or the reptiles. Depending how long he ended up distracted by the hedgehogs he might still end up over there before the day was done. But for now, he was definitely watchin the adorable piney balls come to life in the cage.

"Oh Biscuit is adorable!" Kurt said, breaking into a big grin as he crouched down and lifted his camera to start snapping some photos. There was at least a few particularly cute ones where Biscuit and a few of the other braver hedgehogs had their tiny noses right up to the camera.

"That one's Spike," Sakaki added, pointing out one of the others, "and that's Mr. Prickles, he's the oldest of them, or at least he's been here longer than even I have been. And that could be either Nīdoru or Hari, they're actually hard to tell apart sometimes."

Clearly, this was all information Kurt needed to know. That, and Sakaki didn't really have many opportunities to tell people all the names she'd given the animals, so she was taking advantage of it while she could.

"They are all amazing"Kurt said with a grin. "You are so lucky getting to work at a place like this with the animals and everything!"

"I really am," Sakaki agreed, letting a small smile slip out with a bright blush of pride. "I wouldn't trade this for anything."

And she had the battle wounds to prove it.

Kurt nodded and then a certain somewhat sad thought crossed his mind. She had mentioned some of the animals had been here before she had.

"Do these guys end up here a lot? I mean, are a lot of these guys here for a long time?"

It WAS a small island and all.

"....sometimes," said Sakaki, after a moment, and, boy, wasn't that an effective way to dampen her smile. But she tried to shake that away. "But not always. We get a lot of people...from the mainland."

"Ah that's true. I keep forgetting people come here to visit from the mainland." Kurt felt a little bad, seeing the look on Sakaki's face. "I know they are lucky though to get such great care while they are here. You clearly love them all a lot!"

And that seemed to bring the soft smile right back, as Sakaki looked over at the hedgehogs ambling around their little habitat.

"It'd be impossible not to," she said, quietly, and maybe even seemed to have forgotten Kurt was even there all. She could very well be content to just stand there, admiring the hedgehogs all day long...

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